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It’s cold winter and it’s time to hit the road and visit a place with warm water, warm weather and glassy waves. Hoe to pack your board so that the airline workers don’t smash it? It’s almost impossible to be 100% safe but here is what you can do to protect your surfboard on travel in a best way possible.

Surfboard Packing Tips

1. Fins – remove them! They are like little levers waiting to be hit from the side and making a mess. If you have glass on fins put a finbox over them.

2. Rail protection – protect your rails. Get a foam tube insulation, cut it in half and duct tape it to the rails.

3. Bubble Wrap – get a sheet of bubble wrap (the one with large bubbles if possible) and wrap your board in it.

4. Board Bag – if you are only taking one board then put it into boardbag and that’s it. If you have a boardbag that is the same size as your surfboard it should just fit in together with all the protection taped to it. They make bags a bit bigger.

If you are taking more boards in a bigger bag then here are a few more tips:

if you have room then bubble wrap each board separately, if not wrap them all together but put something between them (towel, one layer of bubble wrap…)

put the longest board at the bottom, the shortest one at the top

strap the boards inside the bag (most bags have internal straps)

fill remaining empty space with wetsuits, towels, clothes… and try to fix them so they dons move inside the bag. Don’t put any hard objects into the bag.